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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
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Subject: Re: How (or Where?) to get started on Ada? (Properly)
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:42:26 +0200
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Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> In nearly 30 yrs of using Ada, I have never encountered a situation in
> which low-level concerns had a positive effect on a project.

I've had a few cases where I've had to implement work-arounds because
implementation choices in specific implementations of the standard
libraries gave order-of-magnitude slow-downs.

But except for those very few cases - and even in those cases, really -
I've been very happy with working on the high abstraction level until
specific issues showed up.

> Concerning your original question, I second the suggestion of "Ada
> Distilled".

Same here.  But it sounds like the reference manual itself might also be
a valuable learning resource in this specific case.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
»In Ada you model the problem space, not the solution space.«
                                                     -- Robert I. Eachus